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Sheriff's deputies respond to calls The Washington County Sheriff's Department responded to the following calls since Tuesday, Sgt. Roy Harsh said: Today: At 12:43 a.m., a window was reported broken out at BP Lesky Distributing Co. at 120 Western Maryland Parkway. At 6:18 a.m., a bullet reportedly struck a 2006 Chevrolet truck parked in the 18000 block of West Oak Ridge Drive. Tuesday: At 7:13 a.m., a Honda Del Sol was reported broken into at Hagerstown Honda at 10307 Auto Place.

Police log for Oct. 18 Man tells police he was robbed in city A man walking early Tuesday morning through a downtown alley that runs behind the first block of South Potomac Street told Hagerstown City Police he was robbed at gunpoint. The 20-year-old victim said he was approached in the first block of Cramer's Alley at 12:05 a.m. by a man who displayed a black semi-automatic handgun and demanded money. The suspect then yanked a gold chain from the victim's neck and told him to walk away.

Bast honored with proclamation BOONSBORO - Douglas Bast, longtime businessman and town historian, was honored with a proclamation Monday night during a Boonsboro Town Council meeting. After a successful going-out-of-business sale, Bast closed the 174-year-old Bast of Boonsboro furniture showroom last summer. The business at 109 N. Main St. was founded by John Christian Brining in 1837 as a cabinetmaker's shop that also sold coffins, and Bast said he believed it to be the oldest continually operating furniture store in Maryland.

Smoke reported at shopping center The Hagerstown Fire Department was called to the South End Shopping Center Wednesday night for a report of an electrical burning odor and smoke in Signature Hair Salon, a Washington County Fire and Rescue dispatcher said. The call was made at about 10 p.m. By about 11:15 p.m., smoke was visible in three stores and firefighters were trying to determine the source of the smoke, the dispatcher said. He did not know which stores contained smoke.

waynesboro@herald-mail.com GREENCASTLE, PA. - Ezra G. Fitz Jr. doesn't like change. He sleeps in the bedroom he was born in 83 years ago. He's been married to the same woman for 62 years, and he's been in the car business since 1947. Fitz, of Zullinger, Pa., sold his first car, a new 1950 Chevrolet, for "under $1,500" while working for a Waynesboro, Pa., dealership. His most recent sale was a new 2005 Buick LeSabre for $34,000 at Hicks Chevrolet-Buick-Volvo, where he has worked for 35 years.

HAGERSTOWN -- A Hagerstown man who told investigators he robbed a bank to pay his bills pleaded guilty Thursday in Washington County Circuit Court to robbery. Alvie Robert Fairall Jr., 42, pleaded guilty to the Jan. 6 robbery of The Columbia Bank at 1571 Wesel Blvd. In exchange for the plea, three handgun charges and charges of armed robbery, first- and second-degree assault, and theft of $1,000 to less than $10,000 will be dismissed, Assistant State's Attorney Brett Wilson said.

KEARNEYSVILLE, W.Va. -- A man charged in a Dec. 5 convenience store shooting near Martinsburg, W.Va., that left a man paralyzed was arrested again Tuesday night in Jefferson County, according to police and court records. Daniel Thomas Hoff-Hayles, 24, of 665 Castanea Drive in Martinsburg, was charged Tuesday with carrying a dangerous weapon, fleeing on foot from a police officer, possession of marijuana and speeding, according to Jefferson County Magistrate Court records. Hoff-Hayles was found in possession of a pocket knife, and a .25-caliber Titan handgun, $9,475 in cash and a small amount of marijuana were seized from a Buick LeSabre that he was driving, according to a complaint filed by Cpl. D.C. Tabler of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department.

martinsburg@herald-mail.com SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. - A group of two adults, eight excited children and one unhappy boy in a Spider-Man outfit made footsteps of history under a hot sun Friday afternoon. They were the first people to walk across the new James Rumsey Bridge in Shepherdstown when it opened to traffic a few minutes after 3 p.m. "It's pretty cool to know that my grandpa went on that old bridge when it was first built and now I'm on this bridge," Samantha Yates, 10, said as she was about halfway across.